Dazzle your dessert table with this year’s hottest holiday cheesecakes awarded by Anna Olson!
Courtesy of Tre Stelle’s first Cheesecake Showdown, Canada’s baking sweetheart named the top three holiday cheesecakes that will satisfy your holiday sweet tooth.
As the not-so-secret ingredient to making the creamiest holiday desserts, Tre Stelle Cream Cheese is made with only four all-natural ingredients. It’s also free of stabilizers or fillers so it folds into delicate ingredients for effortless holiday baking.
Just ask Canadian bakers like Maggie Frith from The Magpie Cakery whose Triple Gingerbread Cheesecake with crystalized ginger was awarded best of the season by Olson!
To get the full recipes from all finalists, visit @TreStelleCheese or download BitesbyTreStelle.
Triple Gingerbread Cheesecake
Olson chose this as the winning cheesecake, calling it balanced and delicate. She commended Frith, founder of @TheMagpieCakery, for her use of Tre Stelle Cream Cheese in the filling as well as the topping, which also featured sparkling crystallized ginger.
Ingredients
For the graham cracker crust
2 cups (240 g) gingerbread cookie crumbs or gingersnap crumbs*
3 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp (30 g) crystallized ginger, pulverized
5 tbsp (70 g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
For the ginger whipped cream
¼ cup plus 2 tbsp (65 g) Tre Stelle Original Cream Cheese, cold (use the rest of the cream cheese from the fifth box used for the filling)
1½ cups heavy/whipping cream, very cold
1 cup (120 g) icing sugar, sifted
2 tbsp (30 g) crystallized ginger, pulverized
For the filling
2 lb. (907 g) Tre Stelle Original Cream Cheese, room temperature
1⅓ cups (266 grams) granulated sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1½ teaspoons ground ginger
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
½ teaspoon table salt
¼ cup (80 g) molasses
5 eggs, room temperature
1 cup heavy/whipping cream, room temperature
2 tsp vanilla
To get the instructions, visit @TreStelleCheese or download BitesbyTreStelle.
Honourable Mentions
No-Bake Individual Matcha Cheesecakes
Olson loved @KellysBakedGoods’ no-bake individual desserts, which are an easy introduction to the delicious world of cheesecakes. Olson also praised the balance of flavour and texture in this dessert.
Gingerbread Cheesecake Roll
As a departure from the usual cheesecake and for those seeking a challenge, this cheesecake roll by @IndulgewithMimi is a stunning addition to your holiday dessert table.
Full recipes and instructions for all the cheesecake finalists will be available @TreStelleCheese throughout December.
For more information on Tre Stelle Cream Cheese visit trestelle.ca